When fewer people can get abortions, property crime rates go up, a new working paper out Monday suggests. The analysis, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, underscores the ...

One might expect researchers to have settled the question long ago of whether poverty causes crime. On the surface, the answer seems obvious. A correlation certainly exists: anyone working in the ...

The correlation between reduced crime rates and thriving communities is profound. Lower crime not only ensures the safety of residents but also sets off a chain reaction of positive outcomes that ...

Not only are Pasifika disproportionately affected by violent crime, but Pasifika children are the most affected group surging ...

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A new report by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that though poverty levels have stayed relatively stable over the years (21% in 2023-4; levels have stayed between 20% and 22% every year since ...

ZIP codes with the highest poverty levels also experience higher rates of obesity, depression and low birth-weight babies. Limited access to affordable healthy food and transportation to medical ...

As pandemic subsidies disappeared, wages kept workers just ahead of inflation, although gaps have widened for some groups. Data is the “supplemental” poverty rate, which accounts for taxes and ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The child poverty rate in Syracuse fell by more than 7 percentage points in 2024, but the city still had one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation, according to new ...

Four Upstate New York cities ranked among those with the highest child poverty rates in the country in 2024. The cities were Syracuse, Rochester, Albany and Buffalo, according to 2024 estimates ...